UPDATE:

Space Invaders the Summer Blockbuster (winning entry by Mark Monlux)

Stowe – Second Place

Adam – Steam Punk Mario Brothers (Second Place)

Mark Brill –

McWars by Thorax –

Anique “Moby Dick and Monster Trucks”

SpeedRunner! (Junior Guest CLAW Cadets)

Jihadfield by RR

* * *

Join the CLAW tonight at 7:30 PM at Mandolin Cafe’s back room! This week’s OPEN SWIM cartoonists game activity will be to REBOOT any intellectual property; making it appealing to today’s audiences with their cynical, post post modernist world views AND pitch the TV show/comic/movie to the group who votes on the best one.

ACTION STEPS:

1 . split into teams

2. pick your character franchise that could really use a reboot.

3. DRAW DRAW DRAW! (Transformer Babies? Lego Garfield Video Game? Family Circus with Zombies? Fraggle Emo?)

4. Make your pitch.  Sell it!

Please welcome Adam M Botsford. He is our first Young Cartoonist of the Future Scholarship winner way back from 2009, fellow Frost Park Chalkie, and now a full fledged member of CLAW making him FEZ NUMBER ELEVEN!   Here are some photos from tonights secret initiation ritual:

see more of our cartoonist absurdity in our flickr pool.

On April 28th, 2010, CLAW member #1, Electric Elliot, was joined by #3 Mark Monlux at Mouths & Mics: Poetry in the 253. The event took place in the Washington State History Museum and featured 7 fantastic poets from across the 253.

CLAW has obtained footage from the event, shot by Adam the Alien, which featured Electric Elliot and Mark Monlux’s collaboration in which Mark’s art compliments Elliot’s poem “Up, Up and Away”.  Check out footage from the entire event over @ The Melon, and see more Electric Elliot poetry @ ElliotTrotterCOM.